Welcome to going to school

Ladybug woke up this morning sounding like she was coughing up a lung. Welcome to going to school and the flu/cold season. She was miserable. She woke up, had breakfast and then she laid in bed until 11am. She had no enthusiasm and she felt miserable. She said that the only thing that she wanted was to snuggle with Mommy. So that's what we did. It was wonderful.

We had to back out of my neice's 2nd birthday party which was disappointing. My husband was going to take Ladybug and I would stay home with Superman. The party involved too many people in one small space. It's so overstimulating for him that he sleeps for hours afterwards. Often people tell us that the people who are there would be very understanding if he melted but they're missing the big picture. The meltdowns don't bother me. Heck, we've had huge screaming/kicking/self abusing meltdowns in the middle of a major mall. It's that I don't want to put him in a position that he finds physically painful due to overstimulation. Most people don't realize that it really is physically painful. His head hurts, his muscles hurt. Try feeling like that for 4+ hours. But as it turns out, none of us went anywhere.

I was bordering on a major migraine today so hubby stayed home to help with the kids. I slept from 1:30-4:00pm and that helped a lot. Superman missed out on his friend's 6th birthday party. But again, too many kids in one space.

It was a good day though. Movies, snuggles, hanging out. With hubby's work schedule, we rarely get days like this.